REST Contracts in Manchester

Representational State Transfer (REST)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring REST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited REST over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 60 61
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing REST 25 37 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.77% 2.57% 2.63%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.16% 10.79% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 36
10th Percentile - £402 £422
25th Percentile £400 £441 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +4.95% -4.71%
75th Percentile £511 £598 £586
90th Percentile £611 £673 £606
North West median daily rate £455 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% -4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

REST falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 224 343 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.78% 23.79% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 259 292
10th Percentile £387 £363 £338
25th Percentile £403 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £546 £634 £575
90th Percentile £638 £825 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £70.63 £65.50 -
25th Percentile £71.56 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -
75th Percentile £84.06 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £86.88 £81.30 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%

REST
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing REST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing REST in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing REST in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for REST in Manchester

REST
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing REST in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for REST in Manchester

REST
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing REST within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 6 £400 - 56
REST
North West

REST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
2 1 (4.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) dbt
5 3 (12.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Cloudflare
7 1 (4.00%) Contentful
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) Slack
7 1 (4.00%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.00%) Airbyte
3 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Babel
1 5 (20.00%) webpack
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) Gradle
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) JMeter
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.00%) Selenium
4 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Back Office
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) React Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) React
2 8 (32.00%) SOAP
3 7 (28.00%) .NET
3 7 (28.00%) CSS
3 7 (28.00%) HTML
4 6 (24.00%) HTML5
4 6 (24.00%) RESTful
5 2 (8.00%) Express.js
5 2 (8.00%) Jest
5 2 (8.00%) Next.js
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth
5 2 (8.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.00%) Spring
6 1 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
6 1 (4.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Derivative
1 7 (28.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.00%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (8.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
1 8 (32.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Android
2 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Risk Management
3 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
4 5 (20.00%) API Development
4 5 (20.00%) B2B
4 5 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.00%) Digital Twin
5 4 (16.00%) ETL
5 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (16.00%) Open Source
5 4 (16.00%) RDF
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (16.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Clean Code
7 2 (8.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) SPARQL
5 3 (12.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Basel III
1 7 (28.00%) MiFID
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) Oracle
3 7 (28.00%) Sybase
4 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock
4 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media